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If you set your netflix settings to english instead of native languare (my case swedish) you will get ALOT more stuff. Like this movie.
Netflix removes all movies that has not you language in subtitles. This move has english subs, so if I had my netflix set in swedish it would not show up.

@polljess You're right! I had no idea that was a thing, thanks a lot! guess I'll get to see this film after all.

@polljess I second Jikap here - that was a good tip!

The more I read history, the more I believe that no one should ever trust the English. Heck, the US got suckered in to more than one disastrous war (in terms of longterm consequences) to fill the pockets of the British ruling classes.

Fear not! You returned the favour with Iraq and Afghanistan... Think we're even now.

@Paladin yuuuuuup, we followed them into Korea too and Aussies got yanked into Vietnam.

In fairness you'd think we'd have learnt not to touch Afghanistan with a barge pole after the first three times and after the time the Soviets had.

@BritishRabbit

Korea was a bizarre case of Stalin suckering the US and China into a war in order to sell the Chinese more weapons... that the Russians would still control. There's a reason the war dragged on for a few years after a sane person would've ended it and more or less stopped almost as soon as Stalin bit the dust.

Vietnam was the US getting suckered into propping up the French Colonial Empire. I'll trust the French sooner than the British, but not much sooner.

@CorruptUser ... wot...

So the USA being rabidly afraid of anything communist had nothing to do with it and it was all France's fault? Right.

@BritishRabbit It's well documented. The US initially became involved in Vietnam because France demanded US aid in maintaining control of their colony, while threatening to get aid from the Soviets if the US didn't help.

This didn't last very long, as France pulled out of Vietnam shortly thereafter anyway, but by that time Lyndon Johnson was emotionally invested in Vietnam and ordered more troops in despite the assessment of army observers who'd been assigned to gather intel that the US would never win the war.

@BritishRabbit Quite true, that.

@Paladin

Oh, I'm not saying anyone should listen to the US when it comes to wars; if a politician is clamoring for war, tell them to sod off. If the US is going to war, you can guarantee that even if the war is justified the whole thing will probably be a mess that leaves the place worse than before, and half the time the goals could've been achieved without bloodshed. E.g, Vietnam was so pointless that after millions dead Vietnam is practically an ally ANYWAY. There are a few exceptions but they've become increasingly rare over time.

The US has no followthrough either; promise the Kurds some support, ignore them when Saddam gasses them, promise them more support, abandon them to their fate in Iraq, promise them support in Syria, then abandon them again the moment Turkey throws a hissy-fit. Much of US policy has been containment against both Russia and China, all 3 powers operate by having knives at each others' throats. The US effectively controls every island group surrounding China so in the event of a war China is entirely cut off, but China produces too much cheap garbage that it even could be cut off for a war. The US controls the Bosporous (thus Turkey calls the shots), but the moment a direct dispute happens Russia cuts off the entire Black Sea which is a huge problem since half of European commerce flows down the Danube. In the meantime, Turkey is about to open up the Black Sea to the US (it's a bizarre story involving Russia abusing an old treaty that never included the possibility of a giant canal being built), which is part of why Russia is so desperate to invade Ukraine NOW.

In terms of historical stuff like imperialism/colonialism, the US has an extremely bizarre history where there's a strange form of non-interfering interference that somehow ends up going very wrong. It's pretty much the only country to ever colonize a country for the specific purpose of creating an independent country; Liberia, which was one of only two Black-run countries during the scramble for Africa. The purpose was mostly to have an answer to the problem of slavery; send all them uppity Freedman back to Africa. Africa is a big place; was it actually their ancestral homeland? Haha no. And the Freedman basically ran the place as dictators for a century or so, oh well. France and Britain made a small fortune from the Opium War, let's invade Japan! Oh, turns out Japan doesn't actually have resources worth seizing. Meh, they can do what they want. Wait, they end up industrializing and go on a genocidal rampage against ALL of East-Asia? Whoopsie! Hmm, Britain made a fuqton of money screwing over the Persians, can the US do the same with the Saudis? Sure can! Also, no need to interfere with the Saudis, whatever happens internally is Not Our Problem. Oops!

Man... that movie is awesome!
Bollywood has caught up to Hollywood in terms of production quality, for sure!

I started to see it, because I found the idea refreshing. But it was too exaggerated, to biased, too black-and-white and nationalistic, at least the first chapter. I found it boring and stopped watching, sorry. The Raj was evil, colonialism is the most damaging single ideology of the history of mankind (ever surpassing masculine sexism, and this is a LOT to surpass), I would be totally sympathetic to something a bit more nuanced, more realistic. As it was, it was too much, like eating pure sugar instead of a cake (I love cakes).

PS: I would LOVE to see a war epos about a group of soldiers in the Vietnam War. A group of *north Vietnamese* soldiers. Viet Cong welcome.

Hand on, who is England talking to as a superior? *Wild wasteland music plays*

@LuxVertas
Today he's playing the role of commanding officer of a prison fort. He may be calling the Governor (or someone in between in the command chain).

I was very confused at first, then I understood it had nothing to do with this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRRrrrr!!!

For info about the film, wikipedia is your friend
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRR_(film)

@Shunka The link you posted does not contain the closing parenthesis after "film", rendering it unusable unless people manually add it . A common problem.

I don't know about anyone else, but I recommend doing it this way (which is what I did): Watch this review ([links removed] The Critical Drinker: RRR) to understand what expectations you should have, then watch the movie, in 2 parts if you must because it is very long, then watch the review again and enjoy it all the more.

@lm101 if you want to share a link but you don't want it be the full URL, you go [url = link] name of link[/url]

[links removed] RRR - The Best Movie You've Never Seen

@AmericanButterfly Cool, thanks!

@lm101 you're welcome and hey you did it congratulations

THE NATIVES GOT A GUN AND THEY'RE NOT AFRAID TO USE IT

for some reason it feels like comics are coming out more often

@Lawnmowersarecool comics are usually posted two weeks from each other sometimes three weeks but the most common number between comics is 14 days and if I'm correct we should get a new comic by the end of the week